Still another Republican senator scoffs at effort to defund Obamacare; calls it silly

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Pat Cunningham offers an unabashedly liberal perspective on national politics. A note of caution: The language gets a little salty on some of the sites to which this blog links. So, don't say you weren't warned. By the way, this blog's name is inspired by the Will Rogers quote, \x34All politics is applesauce.\x34 In 41 years as a print and broadcast journalist, most of those years with the Rockford (Ill.) Register Star, Pat has covered national politics under eight American presidents. He's attended 10 national political conventions, Republican and Democratic alike, and has interviewed countless prominent political players, including Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, Gerald Ford and George H.W. Bush.

Sen. Bob Corker [above] of Tennessee became the latest Republican to criticize what he described as a “silly effort” by some members of his party to block funding for the government unless Obamacare is gutted.

Corker said that fellow Republicans like Sens. Mike Lee (R-UT), Marco Rubio (R-FL), Rand Paul (R-KY) and Ted Cruz (R-TX) who have pledged to block a continuing resolution (CR) and cause a ...